If you find that blogging takes up too much of your time, or even if it’s just something you know you should be doing but don’t really want to do, there are a lot of ways a Virtual Assistant could help.
Here are 20 ways a Virtual Assistant could help with blogging and make your life easier:
Ideas
A Virtual Assistant can help you come up with ideas as well as develop and maintain a list of topics you can refer to whenever you need a little extra inspiration.
- Research industry trends
- Maintaining an “idea” register
- Brainstorming
- Creating a content calendar
- Keyword research to find topics lacking in your website
Technical
A Virtual Assistant can take care of the technological hassles around running a blog, leaving you to concentrate on coming up with the substance of the posts.
- Updating WordPress
- Finding and updating an appropriate theme
- Editing the theme to suit your needs
- Finding and updating plugins
- Managing the backup process to be sure it’s happening regularly, and it works
Creation
Although I believe a Virtual Assistant shouldn’t do your content creation, there are still a lot of things they can do to make it easier for you by handling pretty much everything except the meat of the posts.
- Research and fact checking of any statistics or data you want to include in the post
- Taking bullet point notes and compiling them into a post
- Transcribing an audio recording to create a post
- Creating tables and diagrams to illustrate facts and figures
- Proofreading
Other
Then there are the things that need to be done after the content has been created that will help make sure that it reaches the widest possible audience.
- Finding appropriate images that are legal for you to use
- Uploading and formatting the post
- Performing a small amount of SEO optimisation
- Managing comments on your blog and helping to build a sense of community
- Sharing the post on social media
So that is 20 ways a Virtual Assistant could help with blogging, and that’s only scratching the surface. For instance, if you publish a video blog, get a Virtual Assistant to make sure the transcription is correct. That will help with translation to languages other than English and allow those of us who won’t watch a video to read through the content instead.
If there’s something stopping you from blogging, why don’t you see if you can find a Virtual Assistant who can take some of the work off your hands. Whether you need some inspiration or help, or it’s how to find a Virtual Assistant (Hint: If you don’t know any Virtual Assistants already, try VA Directory or Virtually Yours) or if you just can’t see how a Virtual Assistant could help with your specific situation, feel free to contact me and I’ll do my very best to help you out.
If you’d like some more ideas, check out my previous posts on blogging.
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